Churng recently posted, "Some things [teas] I have waned away from though ... So, are there teas that were faves or near faves that you have drifted away from? Please share of course.

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Today's TeaPoll and discussion topic. Churng recently posted, "Some things [teas] I have waned away from though ..." So, are there teas that were faves or near faves that you have drifted away from? Please share of course.

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I used to drink a lot of jasmine green tea, one of two teas I drank fairly regularly for years before I started exploring tea more serious a few years ago, and now I hardly touch the stuff. I've just found so many other fantastic teas, and even reasonably high quality jasmine started to seem more like drinking perfume than drinking tea. It was a gradual drift, from that inexpensive version to fancy jasmine pearls to cutting the pearls with another tea to watching the last bit of jasmine tea already mixed with silver needles left sit in the cabinet for many weeks before I could bring myself to brew it up.

whites for me tooIm pretty burnt out on assams as well. After 75g of #8, and 100g of a broken version of same thing past couple months, I can feel my stomach telling me to take a break from this tea About the right time for the darjeelings to get here...

Never really drifted from oolongs, I still have my staples, more just expanding my horizons so naturally less time spent on them.

ruby #18 at work , 1999/3 Xia Guan Jia-Ji Toucha this morning The puerh was really good this time around. 4.5g of mostly small particles from bottom of bag (plus one decent thin chunk) in 100ml pot. The dirt taste that was so evident when I brewed in a big porcelain pot is almost entirely gone. Got 8 nice infusions. Surprised at the outcome, I expected less from so much small leaf particle. After brewing this one in the same pot I brewed the dry malay brick from otti, they taste pretty simular. I went ahead and ordered the 8582 as well so I could compare dry from wet from roughly same year.

So this leads me to a question, is there usually a certain uniformity in taste for things like 8582 if close to same year? Or can just one year difference mean a totally different range of raw materials? I am guessing the later...

churng wrote:whites for me tooIm pretty burnt out on assams as well. After 75g of #8, and 100g of a broken version of same thing past couple months, I can feel my stomach telling me to take a break from this tea

Exactly, Assam is the only tea to make me feel sick.

I would have to add Jasmine to the list too. I used to have Jasmine pearls at least several times a week, I cannot remember the last time I brewed any Jasmine tea.

Yutaka Midori LE a short time ago. This specific selection as well as YM "classic" will fade away unfortunately, replaced by another YM. Well, hopefully this will end happily!